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ROLE OF ABHYASI
of undue attachment does not arise. Why I am trying to link up three books here now is, because in “Ten Commandments” He talks about a trustee, in “Reality at Dawn” He talks about how a Master is everything and in “Towards Infinity” He says, what would be the state of Vairagya. If all these three views are put together, then we understand what He means by developing due attachment or maintaining non- attachment. This is one of the things that we have got to develop. The Vedantins have tried well, the traditional people have tried well, and we cannot say that because they did not try well they could not succeed in this. When can we succeed? When that flow of consciousness which naturally flows down to the baser levels of our existence is diverted to the higher levels by the force of the Master or by the will of the Master, then it becomes possible for us to experience detachment or experience non-attachment.
These two things go together, so what is our role? Our role is to practice meditation and the role of the Master is to divert the flow of consciousness from the heart to the Atman point. When these two things go systematically then development of Vairagya which seems to be a lifetime affair elsewhere becomes a
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